Girls S2E5 One Man's Trash

I wanted to make a single episode thread because the full season thread seems to be for threadcrappers who don't even watch the show.

I liked this self-contained episode. The character of Hannah seems like a real person. She is not completely likeable (nor are real people).
I agree with what Sepinwall says about this episode being like an author writing a touching short story that focuses on the heroine and one of her personality traits. It did feel very literary. Or cinematic - it really did look like a Nancy Meyers movie. Actually, it felt like a play to me.

Joshua is the anti-Adam and I wonder how Adam would have reacted to Hannah when she opened up and spilled all her inner thoughts and feelings. It turned Joshua off completely and he was immediately done; but I think Adam would have eaten it up.

I love how Lena is so willing to be naked and show the world her less than perfect body. I love that she wears unflattering clothes like real women do.

That's why I like this show. It feels like I'm watching real people. There isn't really anything going on that hasn't happened to me or to someone I know. Every bit of it is believable. I don't like the characters very much either but I also don't like a lot of people. I think the unlikable characters are part of the shows charm.

I was referring to people who claim to hate the entire show, not individual episodes. Discussion and criticism of an episode (what you liked and what you didn't) is what this forum is for.

Please use this thread for actual discussion of this episode.

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Are you new here? That is how half the threads go. Granted, sometimes it happens because a show has a strong opening season or opening few episodes, but even still you find people who come in to say how much they hate a show. Sometimes, they even admit that they hate it but want to keep watching until it ends.

I was curious about all the buzz and this was my first episode. I'll give it a couple more tries but I'm not sure a bunch of nude scenes of a woman who looks like an Idaho potato with terrible tattoo choices is my cup of tea.

I wanted to punch the angry cafe owner dude in the face just about every time he opened his mouth.

I'm a fan of the series and didn't like this episode because it was self-contained. Meeting some guy and shacking up with him for the day is more Jessah than Hannah. The sexual situations Hannah gets involved in are because her distorted expectations of her roles or avoiding confrontation.